...goals of the organization. Using what you know about motivation and the field of I/O psychology, respond to the following: 1. Propose at least three ways to motivate others in the workplace. 2. Create a strategy for enhancing your own motivation in the workplace. 3. Compare and contrast two motivational theories (found in Chapter 7 of your course text) of your choice. 4. Finally, discuss the pros and cons of using financial incentives in the workplace. Your assignment must be two to three double-spaced pages in length (excluding title and reference pages) and formatted according to APA guidelines as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Include a cover page and reference page, formatted in APA style. In addition to the textbook, utilize at least one scholarly peer-reviewed source that was published within the past five years. Your sources must be cited according to APA format as outlined in the Ashford Writing Center. Motivational Theories and Factors. To be effective, a company must learn to motivate its employees to efficiently meet the goals of the organization. Using what you know about motivation and the field of I/O psychology, respond to the following: 1. Propose at least three ways to motivate others in the workplace. 2. Create a strategy for enhancing your own motivation in the workplace. 3. Compare and contrast two motivational theories (found in Chapter 7 of your course text) of your...
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...Employers and employment relations - What affects employers to adopt management strategies? Abstract This paper aims to examine how management strategies will influence employees in improving their performance. There are many factors that influence the managers’ decisions on which management strategy they should approach. A suitable management strategy can help the organization to achieve their goal efficiently. This paper summarizes and concludes articles from three academic journals research. All findings indicate that managers are acting a very important role to decide what strategies to use in different business environment and employee’s features. It also provides some factors and suggestions for managers to consider when they design their management strategies. Introduction In recent years, employers and employment relations had become a global issue. It refers to any relationship between managers and workers. Many researches are paying attention on how managers design their management strategies to influence employees. The manager acts as a strategic actor that shaping employment relation and the characteristics of productive enterprises (Allan, Brosnan & Walsh 1999). Therefore, managers are acting a very important role in designing which management strategy is suitable in the specific business environment. Generally, the goals of management strategies are to try to minimise the labour cost, maximize the profit and improve the performance of employees. It is...
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..."Improving Organizational Performance" Simulation Summary Airdevils Inc. is located in Salt Lake City, Utah founded by Celsey Evans in 1995. There are 115 employees who provide aerial stunts throughout different industries. However, in the last two years Airdevils customers have not been satisfied with their performance and it has also been brought to Celsey Evans that job satisfaction among the employees is low. Job Satisfaction There has been a drop in performance for Airdevils stunt performers. It has been said that employees do not have job satisfaction. Employees were given a survey to determine the reason why job satisfaction was low. The results of the survey were that stunt performers are not receiving what they joined the company for and the stunts are routine and do not excite the performers. The recommendation for the organization is for Celsey Evans to possibly send stunt performers for training in more thrilling stunts given what the budget can allow. Budget Airdevil performers are dissatisfied with the organization and see the organization as inflexible and rigid. A set budget has been put together by Celsey Evans allowing the company to recommend interventions for the stunt performers. Given the budget, some interventions Airdevils can participate in are training in other stunts, enter new line of stunts, and performance based incentives. The company has recommended these interventions because in a previous survey, employees did not have job satisfaction...
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...Process Innovation in enhancing Organizational Culture and Organizational Structure towards the Innovative Performance of Susie’s Cuisine I. Brief description of the research Susie’s Cuisine is a native delicacies restaurant in Angeles City, Pampanga, Philippines. It has started in the year Nineteen Seventy Two (1972) which is also the year when the former president, Ferdinand Marcos, declared Martial Law all over the country. Susie’s Cuisine serves familiar local foods like sapin-sapin, a layered glutinous rice and coconut dessert in Philippine cuisine, palabok, which is made from rice noodles that has been cooked in boiling water and drained then topped with a thick red orange sauce flavoured with shrimp or smoked fish, and the restaurant’s best seller, the tibok – tibok, which is a pudding traditionally made with carabao’s milk. The company has been considered as part of the identity of Pampanga. The restaurant started in a “carienderia” informal set-up and eventually opened more branches in other areas of the province after. As of today, the company has fifteen (15) fully owned branches in malls and other commercial establishments. The history of how the company started attributes to its lack of organizational culture and process innovation. This issue leads towards the ineffectiveness and inefficiency of the workplace of the company. This study will research upon the assessment of the role of Process innovation in enhancing Organizational Culture...
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...Submitted By: Workplace Spirituality Group Project Report submitted to Prof. R. Ravi Kumar in partial fulfillments of the requirements of the course “Managing People and Performance in Organizations” Group No. 8 (Section B) ASHISH PRAKASH PAWAR HILLAL W MOMIN KALPESH SHRIKRISHNA WANI MANGESH KUMAR SHARMA NEHA TIRKEY RAHUL RANJAN SENTHIL D VISHWAS SHARMA 1411084 1411092 1411099 1411102 1411107 1411120 1411126 1411137 TABLE OF CONTENTS 1. Introduction …..…………………………………………………………………….... Origins and Growth of Workplace Spirituality.………………………….... 2. Components of Workplace Spirituality ……..……………………... The “Vertical” Component …..…………………………………….………….. The “Horizontal” Component …..…………………………………………….. 3. Misconceptions ……………………………………….……….………….………... 4. Spirituality and Modern Organizations ……….………….………... Reasons for emphasis on Spirituality …..…………………….…………..... Characteristics of Spiritual Organizations .…………………………....….. Correlation with Managerial Effectiveness and its Implications ……… 1 1 2 2 2 2 3 4 5 7 5. Inducing Workplace Spirituality in an Organization ……..... 7 6. Criticisms of Workplace Spirituality ……….…….………….………... 9 7. Current status in Corporate World ……………….………….………... 10 8. Conclusion ……………………………………………………………………………….. 11 1. Introduction Workplace spirituality by definition is the “recognition that employees have an inner ...
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...they are used. I-MODE – iMode was the original mobile data technology. iMode mobile Internet technology was introduced in Japan in… (TCO C) Explain the effects of J2ME and BREW on mobile application development. BREW and J2ME are intended to provide a standard protocol for downloading executable applications to… (TCO C) What role can Java play in enhancing the mobile shopping experience? Java reduces the cost of downloading and developing moving images that are written in HTML because…. (TCO D) Discuss why a company would deploy WDAs versus laptops. A mobility increase production in most enterprise but the same doesn’t apply to others due to some… (TCO D) Describe 2 challenges of managing mobile devices in the enterprise. Two key challenges IT department faces in managing Mobile device in an enterprise are: Mobile applications compatibilities and… (TCO E) Give 3 reasons why WDAs pose a security risk when used on corporate intranets? Three of these reasons are that passwords are not always… (TCO F) What are the issues faced when designing mobile device hardware, e.g. handsets, PDAs for the mobile workplace? Mobile Intranet services may represent the largest potential market for Internet-compatible phones....
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...When defining diversity, one must acknowledge the differences between groups on human beings. These differences may include attributes such as ethnicity and race, religious and spiritual beliefs, educational and economic backgrounds, physical abilities and disabilities, age, gender, marital status and occupational status (McRae, 2012). By having all this diversity, individuals can have positive and negative impacts on the workplace. Diversity in the workplace can be perceived as a function of forced societal tolerances (McRae, 2012). No one employer has the right to turn down an applicant based on race, age or gender, it is a law. The workplace should have a diverse group of people. Diversity in a working environment could be seen as evidence of fair hiring practice within an organization (McRae, 2012). The most important impact of diversity in the workplace is perspective. By having different groups of people in the workplace there are different viewpoints to discussions and more than one resolution of issues. By having all these attitudes and ideas, the groups can provide valuable input to brainstorming sessions and issues demanding creative solutions. Businesses should strive for diverse groups and teams. When individuals are able to work with others whom are different from each other it challenges people’s preconceived notions about how the world works and it forces people to step outside their comfort zones and consider new thought processes. By opening people up to new...
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...advantage is that the employer and employee can work together to create a better environment in the workplace such as improving the cleanliness of the workplace, improve the air ventilation if the office is very humid which can cause stress among the workers and violence in workplace. For example, by decorating the office in a nice environment or playing soft music at workplace will help to reduce stress. As for the disadvantages is if there is such worker where does not want to work together may also cause conflicts in the workplace. Other than that, by enhancing the employee’s work life with job enrichment such as temporary job rotation among employees in the department have been recommended. Fresh excitement from the job rotation will provide employees with new feeling at work can help to reduce stress towards work violence. Apart from that, the disadvantages will be company might need to spend more time training the workers where they might be new in that particular department and might not be able to perform if they change the department. Furthermore, by working in group and have high value of co-operation among colleague is one of the recommendations given. By possess good personality styles and good personal work habits can help to reduce conflict among colleague. Reducing racial and gender biases also can increase respect among colleague which can reduce conflict and workplace violence. On the other hand, this recommendation might not be 100% effective due to human nature...
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...The feedback skill of interpersonal communication is beneficial to the workplace as it improves performance by enhancing creativity, promoting trust, and strengthening individual motivation (Baker, Perreault & Reid, 2013). Interpersonal communication can be defined as a type of continuous communication between people, that treat each others as unique individuals. This occurs systematically and throughout this engagement both parties construct and reflect selected personal information to create shared meaning (Wood, 2013). Interpersonal communication occurs when people genuinely reveal who they are and what they feel to each other. The interpersonal skill of feedback helps to create shared meaning by indicating higher responsiveness (Wood, 2013). Eunson (2012) states that feedback is a type of communication response that aims to provide advice and critique to another person supportively. In the workforce feedback can be used constructively to provide information on employees to promote positive change by reflection of performance goals and recent behaviours, this aligns employer performance with the company's objectives (Baker, A & Perreault, D & Reid,A 2013). For feedback to be beneficial in the workplace it must be effective to encourage the receptiveness towards ideas that aim to modify behaviour. The way feedback is delivered alters the receivers perception of the intended messages, the perception of organisational fairness and being treated respectful influences...
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...organisations today recognise the need to use the best training and development practices to increase their competitive advantage. Training and development is a crucial aspect of every business, if the value and potential of its people is to be exploited. According to Fitzgerald (2002) “training is a process that entails the acquisition of knowledge, sharpening of skills, concepts, rules, or changing of attitudes and behaviours to enhance the performance of employees.” McNamara (2010) agrees that training is an educational process, further adding that it involves the presentation and learning of content as a means for enhancing skill development and improving workplace behaviours. To add more onto this, learning is a lifelong process of transforming information and experience into knowledge, skills, behaviours, and attitudes. It could be described as a process whereby experience results in behaviour changes (Rogers, 2003). Lastly, development is a framework that helps employees broaden their personal and interpersonal skills, knowledge and abilities (Heathfield, 2011). It includes such factors as employee training, career development, mentoring and organisational development. It is pointed out by (Heathfield, 2011; Rogers, 2003) that it gives employees...
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..."leadership and management are two distinctive and complementary systems of action. Each having its function and characteristic activities. Both traits are necessary for success in an increasingly complex and volatile business environment." It shows that for corporations, companies and firms to succeed must transformational leadership and management to be implemented hand in hand. Thus, understanding the difference between management and leadership may help companies groom their people to be able to provide both while at the same time shun away the myth that one cannot "manage and lead" (Hawkins). Transformational Leadership and Management Transformational leadership involves the following factors that would complement managers to use in the workplace (Lang) * Idealized Influence; managers need to be exemplary role models. Thus making them be trusted and respected by their juniors to make good decisions for the organization and eventually follow his/ her ideals. Managers are encouraged to be role models where well-led businesses "recognize and reward people who successfully develop leaders"...
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...because health and safety at work is so important. -The law is there to protect the public from workplace dangers. - Employers are ethically required to provide a safe and healthy workplace for their employees. -Ethics instruct the individuals and organization as to what they should do. * Body: - Health is the state of well-being in which all components of health are in balance. -Components of health: 1. Physical: refers to the way your body functions. 2. Social: the quality of your relationships with friends, family, and others. 3. Environmental: keeping your air and water clean, your food safe, and the land around you enjoyable. 4. Emotional: expressing your emotions in a positive nondestructive way. 5. Spiritual: maintaining harmonious relationships with other living things and having spiritual direction and purpose. 6. Intellectual/ mental: the ability to recognize reality and cope with the demands of daily life. -Wellness is the achievement of a person’s best in all six components of health. -Factors affecting your health: 1. Heredity 2. Environment 3. Peers 4. Culture 5. Media 6. Technology 7. Attitude 8. Behavior -Food safety is an increasingly important public health issue. -Food safety plays a significant role in the national economic and health development by: 1. Guarding the health of the nation. 2. Enhancing tourism 3. National and international trade for production. 4. Distribution and consumption...
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...of the human capital reform initiatives advocated in Ahead of the Game: Blueprint for the Reform of Australian Government Administration. Importantly, there is an open question on whether the features of employee engagement in the public service differ from that of other organisations. The Australian Public Service Commission is working with other agencies on clarifying not only the key features of APS employee engagement but also what contribution engaged employees make to enhancing organisational capability. The concept of staff engagement has an enormous amount of currency in the business world today; for many the pursuit of ‘engaged’ staff is seen as an end in itself. But there are a broad range of definitions and interpretations of employee engagement in the literature: some are heavy with psychological theory while others link employee views and organisational strategy. However, there are common themes: for example, engagement is seen as a two-way interaction between the employee and their workplace, engagement is believed to lead to positive organisational outcomes, and finally, it is considered to be measurable through an employee survey. These themes are consistent across a literature that ranges from pamphlets produced by management consultants through to refereed articles in scholarly journals. However,...
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...HOW TO FOSTER CREATIVITY IN DECISION MAKING Abstract Creativity is the most critical and important factor for all organizations to take advantage of in order to survive during these challenging times (Kanter, 1983; Tushman and O'Reilly, 1997; Utterback, 1994). Ongoing uncertainties of both the economic and global financial markets, indirectly forces almost all successful companies to adopt a new corporate business model largely based on using individual creativity to facilitate and enhance organizational innovation. In order to build and sustain an effective organizational culture conquered by creativity and innovation, organizations must effectively identify to maximize all creative wealth of their members, develop creative leaders and management teams and provide a kind of work environment that is highly supportive of creative expression. The focus on this paper is to examine the ways to foster creativity in decision-making since it can easily be seen and understood that fostering creativity is not an easy task as there are no easy formulas to make creativity happen. Introduction Creativity is significant in management research (Shalley et al., 2004) and it is well defined as the production of novel ideas, which are not only unique but also useful. They are deemed to be useful when “they have potential for direct or indirect value to the organization, either in the short or long-term” (Shalley et al., 2004). Ideas can always be generated by anyone, and are either...
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...Vulnerable People in the Workplace Vulnerable People in the Workplace Paper Watson is a Nursing theorist who recognizes nursing as the art of caring and the need to treat each patient holistically (Watson, 2007). Leininger is another Nursing theorist who realized caring is unique and the core of nursing. According to Leininger’s Cultural Care Theory as cited by Maier-Lorentz (2008), on Transcultural Nursing, nurses need to be aware of various cultures and how to use this knowledge in their daily practice (Maier-Lorentz, 2008). Leininger’s Cultural Care Theory addresses the need for cultural competency in health care. Communication with a patient can be affected by a patient’s culture. In addition, nurses need to avoid ethnocentric bias. In an effort to achieve a holistic approach to health care one must have an understanding of cultural factors that may affect proposed health care interventions. Leininger’s Cultural Care Theory can be hardwired with Watson’s Theory of Human Care to help achieve holistic care of the patient (Leininger & McFarland, 2002). In this paper I will discuss the design of a teaching program at my workplace to help raise awareness about vulnerable populations. According to De Chesney and Anderson (2008), issues with vulnerability can apply to population groups or individual people. De Chesney and Anderson (2008) discuss vulnerable populations that are at higher risk for health issues related to socioeconomic status, cultural issues, or environmental...
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